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Re: RFC: stop having a single global page size

To: Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: RFC: stop having a single global page size
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:46:04 +0100

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:03:21PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> Linux maps the kernel with 4MB pages to save TLB entries too, I believe.

Yes, we do that too, but I guess wired kernel memory does not really
count for Matt's proposal.

Sparc64 actually uses 4M, 64kb and 8kb pages for various wired kernel
mappings.

Martin

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